Jonathan Shay, MD., PhD., a MacArthur Fellow, is a clinical psychiatrist whose treatment of combat trauma suffered by Vietnam veterans has deepened understanding of the effects of warfare on the individual. He worked as Veterans Affairs psychiatrist at the VA Outpatient Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts for twenty years. His work on moral injury is found in his books, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. In 2018, Volunteers of America established The Shay Moral Injury Center, named in his honor and dedicated to furthering knowledge about moral injury in the many populations who experience it. He lives in the Boston area.
"Clearly one of the most important scholarly works to have emerged
from the Vietnam War. Beyond that, it is also an intensely moving
work, intensely passionate, reaching back through centuries to
touch and heal. --Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They
Carried
"A fascinating book that is simultaneously brilliant on Greek
classics and the Vietnam War, on modern psychiatry and the
archetypes of human struggle. And, on top of that, it says
something that is directly meaningful to the way many of us live
our lives. Remarkable." --Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winner
author of A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain "A transcendent
literary adventure. His compassionate book deserves a place in the
lasting literature of the Vietnam War." --Herbert Mitgang, The New
York Times "Shay's astute analysis of the human psyche and his
inventive linking of his patients' symptoms to the actions of the
characters in Homer's classic story make this book well worth
reading for anyone who would lead troops in both peace and war."
--Thomas E. Neven, Marine Corps Gazette "Eloquent, disturbing, and
original." --Jon Spayde, The Utne Reader
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